Diplomacy a joke?

[nbartley]

Heyo,

I want to know if anyone else has noticed this. Have you ever been playing, been in the top 3 ranking wise, then suddenly have EVERY AI decided to gang up on you?

I've played about 4 games over the last 2 days and each one has ended with me being absolutely overwhelmed by a force of 7 AI's. I piss off one, by attacking him, (he tends to be the moron who puts a colony in the middle of my contenent before I can stop him (peacefully)) and then all of a sudden there are 6 declarations of mutual defense policies between all the AI's. I proceed to defend myself from the first AI, and then the other AI's see this as an act of hostily against the first AI.

Shortly there after, I've got about 300 units marching on my territory, and they just march through me with their masses of warriors (against my riflemen) and I'm either dead, or have survived do to over seas colonies.

Now the thing that bothers me about the diplomacy is that as soon as all the mutual defenses are activated I can no longer talk to any of the AI's. They all refuse to talk to me (and I've got LOTS of money to bribe them with

Once again, has anyone noticed this happen to them? Is there a way to prevent this?

NB

[Ming]

Use the money BEFORE they go against you. It's always worth it have YOUR OWN mutual defense treaties set up BEFORE you start your war.

If you know you are going to start a war, make sure the key players are already bribed... That way, when the war starts, they just kick back and and you don't have to worry about it

[Adagio]

If you don't know how to fully use the mutual protection pact it can be a great diadvantage, lucky for me I know just how to get every other nation in war with each other and I'll turn out to be the winner of the war You'll just have to wait for the enemy you want to attack don't have any MPP anymore and make sure you have a lot of them, thereby the enemy can't get any friends anymore because everybody hates him for attacking you